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  “And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.” (2 Chronicles 29:2 ESV). King David was not King Hezekiah’s dad, not even close. Though they were related, Hezekiah was over a dozen generations removed from David, hundreds of years separated the men and their reigns over God’s people. But David’s blood flowed in Hezekiah’s veins, and when his father, Ahaz, proved to be a wicked king, Hezekiah distanced himself. When Ahaz died, Hezekiah “did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.” “David His Father…” I Love the Concept Hezekiah could not repeat what his father Ahaz had done, for he was not a man worth following. So Hezekiah went all the way back to his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather David and imitated his life. So much so that the chronicler teamed up the two kings. Hezekiah, in the writer’s mind, did everything